Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan J. Perlis
One who works with their hands is a laborer.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands and their mind is a craftsman.
One who works with their hands, mind and heart is an artist.
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
Steve McConnell
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.
Larry McVoy
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey